Hpi shows manual.

[mjwscorpio]

Looking at buying a BM, the hpi is showing that the car is manual but it is an auto. Any thoughts?

[P-Jay]

It's not unusual to see the odd little mix-up like that, but it would be enough for me to check the vin and engine number just to be sure.

[mjwscorpio]

Looked at BMW archive and entered vin number, it comes back as an auto. Why is hpi wrong?

[Magic919]

What does the V5 show? HPI probably just using the DVLA data.

[Marc p]

HPI make mix-ups all the time, nothing to worry about, the most recent one for me was my 3.0 944 S2 coming back on a HPI as a 2.7 944S.

[DocArbathnot]

You can write to them and get it corrected. Generally pretty reliable but the odd bloomer is thrown in now and again.

[mjwscorpio]

DVLA states manual. No idea what is going on. I've not looked at V5 yet as I'm looking at car tomorrow at a dealers. As I said before when I entered the vin number on the BM site it comes up with the colour, interior, extras and states auto.

[P-Jay]

Auto auto or semi-auto SMG / DSG type thing? I remember when Alfa / BMW brought out the first mainstream automated manuals in the early 00's HPI and the DVLA got themselves in a right state over it - I wrote no less than a 100 finance deals on E46 M3's way-back-when and the SMG ones would sometimes HPI manual, sometimes auto. It was a pain because the RV was slightly different.